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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ben's first major?

2. Which university do Nick and Ben attend?

3. As which of the following does the novel gloss "putain"?

4. What kind of old toy does Mimi use to comfort herself?

5. What kind of chocolate does Sophie note eating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is noted as for sale at the bakery Jess visits on her first morning in Paris?

2. During their first meeting, Jess and Mendelson both order a particular drink. What is it and what is notable about it?

3. What reasons does Ben note for feeling that “Jess could hardly have chosen a worse time to decide to come and stay” with him (1)?

4. What does Jess note might be a good motto for herself?

5. Why does Jess note smelling of vinegar when she arrives in Paris?

6. What reason does Antoine’s wife voice for not disclosing information to Jess?

7. Why does Mimi note wanting to be more like Camille?

8. Why does Nick note liking to have few decorations out?

9. Nick notes that "Normally [during exercise], I'd sit here and do a class, or listen to a Ted Talk" (40)? Why does he not do so?

10. What history of the building does Nick rehearse to Jess?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Paris Apartment. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What function is served by the sections of the text (Prologue and Friday; Saturday; Sunday; Monday; and A Week Later, Epilogue, and Back Matter) starting with the character perspectives they do? How is that function served?

Essay Topic 3

What overall attitude towards law enforcement does the novel display? What in the text demonstrates that attitude, and how does it do so?

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